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Album Reviews

Rodney Crowell “Christmas Everywhere” (New West, 2018)

December 14, 2018 Paul Kerr 1

At last, a grown up Christmas album which acknowledges the conflicting demands of the season, how to weather the commercial blitzkrieg, keep the kids happy and keep oneself sane. Rodney Crowell’s Christmas album has been some […]

Album Reviews

Sarah MacDougall “All The Hours I Have Left To Tell You Anything” (Label In Between, 2018)

November 30, 2018 Paul Kerr 0

A Canadian of Swedish heritage, Sarah MacDougall is often summed up as capturing  a sense of the icy wastes of both countries in her music. She’s certainly been garlanded for her work, nominated for several awards […]

Live Reviews

Dan Stuart + Tom Heyman, The Fallen Angels Club @ The Hug & Pint, Glasgow, Sunday 25th November 2018

November 29, 2018 Paul Kerr 1

It was gratifying to see a good-sized crowd gather tonight in the Stygian gloom of The Hug & Pint, a place our headliner liked to an SF dive joint from the seventies, “Probably called something like […]

Album Reviews

Karine Polwart “Laws of Motion” (Hudson Records, 2018)

November 9, 2018 Paul Kerr 0

A cornerstone of the Scottish folk scene, six times winner at the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards along with a host of other accolades, Karine Polwart goes from strength to strength with this magnificent album which […]

News

Celtic Connections announces 2019 line up

October 26, 2018 Paul Kerr 0

Glasgow’s annual winterfest of roots music has unveiled the line up for 2019 and as usual, amidst the myriad of acts with more than 300 events taking place over the festival’s 18 days, there’s plenty of […]

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    Thanks Paul, I will give them another listen.

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    @andyshort bland? really? Try his bluegrass albums and ...

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    Loved his last album, find his other stuff bland

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

February 12, 2026 1

If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

Behind the Songs

Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

February 10, 2026 0

From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

Interviews

Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

February 9, 2026 0

Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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Tracks

Maya de Vitry “Odds Of Getting Even” – fighting the injustice

July 2, 2024 0

This powerful song from Maya de Vitry comes from the upcoming album ‘The Only Moment‘ which is out on July 12th.  Powerful but not completely new – co-written between de Vitry and Caitlin Canty, the tune […]

Album Reviews

Willie Nelson “Last Man Standing” (Sony Legacy, 2018)

May 22, 2018 0

At 85 years of age Willie Nelson is still churning them out, ‘Last Man Standing’ following hot on the heels of his chart topping ‘God’s Problem Child’, released on his 84th birthday. That in itself is […]

Tracks

Track Premiere: Tom Irwin “Baby’s Britches” – Listen

July 26, 2017 1

Tom Irwin is a 50-something, guitar playing guy, called “a modern day troubadour” by Wilco’s John Stirratt. He’s spent a lifetime making a living making music in the Midwest with occasional forays into the rest of the […]

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